We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come.

I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Labor is superior to capital and precedes capital. Without labor, there is no capital.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.

When I left Springfield [to become President] I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.